Sewing-awl.



No. 846,242. V Y PATBNTBD MAR. `5, 1907. A. lM. PARKER.'

SEWING AWL.

' APPLIGATION FILED 1930.11.1905.

ARTHUR MERTON PARKER, OF LOS ANGELES,

CALIFORNIA.

SEWING-AWL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 5, 1907.

Application filed December 11, 1905. Serial No. 291,201.

To @ZZ whom, it may con/cern:

Beit known that I, ARTHUR MERTON PAR- KER, a citizen of the United tates, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented a new and Improved Sewing-Awl, of which the following is a full description.

My invention is an improvement in the class of sewing-awls whose handles are provided with a recess or chamber to receive a thread-wound spool, from which the thread passes to the eye of the awl-point and is drawn olf as required.

The invention consists of novel features and parts and combinations of same, as will be fully described hereinafter and then pointed out in the claims.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure l is a perspective view of the improvement. Fig. 2 is a sectional plan view of the same on the line 2 2 in Fig. 3, showing the chuck B and the usual receptacle in the handle Afor awl-needles and tools. Fig. 3 is a transverse section of the same on the line 3 3 in Fig. 2, Fig. 4, a transverse section of the handle A, showing the fore end of the spool D, with the extension E of said spool, the shoulder F, a transverse section of the spool-holder G, and the securing-wire H.

The improved sewing-awl is provided with a suitable handle A, carrying at its front end a chuck B for receiving and holding a needle J of any approved construction. Extending into the rear of the handle Ais arranged a chamber O, through which extends a spoolholder G in the form of a shaft secured in the handle A, on which a spool D is mounted, as plainly indicated in Fig. 2. The spool D is turnably and slidably secured within the chamber C by the securing-wire H, which turns in the hole I, which extends from one side of the handle A transversely nearly through the said handle, as shown in Figs. 2 and 4. The curved dotted lines K in l* ig. 4 indicate the securing-wire H turned open to permit the withdrawal of the empty spool from the chamber or the placing a filled spool in the said chamber. rl'his securing-wire H is turned open or turned closed by means of its bent end, which extends beyond the handle, as shown in Fig. 4. The spool D carries the usual thread L, which unwinds from the spool and leads iirst transversely through the thread passage-wayln, then back through the thread passage-u ay IN into the chamber C, then between the end of the spool D and the end of the chamber O to and out through the thread passage-way O, and then along the outer side of the handle A to the eye of the needle J, as indicated in the dravs ings. rlhe thread passage-ways M, N and O extend from the chamber O through the handle A. lhe extension E of the spool D allov s the slidable movement of the said spool, while the securing-w ire H, in conjunction u ith the shoulder F of said extension, prevents the dropping out of the spool from the chamber. dotted lines l P indicate the position of the spool when pressed forward to tighten or lock the tension of the thread. It is therefore apparent that a slight pressure on the outer end of the spool will lock the thread between the fore end of the said spool and the fore end of the chamber, as shown by the dotted lines in Fig. 2.

Preferably I provide a recess Q at the end of the chamber C to receive the spool extension E and carry the thread across the end of the spool proper 3 but thewthread passages or holes N and O may be p ut through the handle forward of the extension.

'Ihe needle J is provided with the usual eye for the passage of the thread, and the said needle is also provided with the usual longitudinally-extending recess in the rear of one side of the eye for the easier passage of the thread through the material to be sewed.

By .the arrangement described a closed handle with no loose parts to fall out or be mislaid is provided. By the arrangement of a slidably-secured spool and the passage of the thread between the end of the slidablysecured spool and the end of the chamber the unwinding and tension of the thread is governed by the palm of the hand of the operator without tightening the said thread on said spool nor necessitating the touching of the said thread in the operation of sewing.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. An awl comprising a handle A having a chamber C extending into its rear, a shaft or spool-holder G secured in the end of the chamber C adapted to hold the spool D with the thread L thereon, the thread passage-ways hl, N and O for the passage of the thread out and back through the said handle into the 'Ihe lOO

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chamber C, between the end of the said chamber and the end oi.' the Said spool, then out through the handle and leading to the eye in the point of the needle J, a securing-Wire II, the spool extension E and the shoulder F.

2. In a sewing-awl provided With a chuck carrying an eye-pointed and grooved needle, and a chamber extending into the rear end of the handle having a thread passage-Way eX- tending from the chamber to the outer side of the handle, a turnably and slidably secured spool or bobbin extending Jfrom the chamber and forming a part of the surface of the rear' end of the handle, and the thread passage- Ways through the handle, between the base of l the spool or bobbin and the bottom of the chamber, substantially as described.

In testimony Whereot1 I have signed my name to this specification in the presence Oi tWo subscribing Witnesses.

A. MERTON PARKER. vWitnesses:

ROBERT W. BATEs, ROBERT BROWN. 

